The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.